Monday, September 23, 2013

Promote C7 Development Efforts

If you can spare a few bucks for the cause, John Lewis is accepting donations for the purchase of an Acer C7 and other gear in his Coreboot+SeaBIOS project. He's already come a long way in his quest to "open up" Chromebooks and is certainly deserving of our support. If you'd like to have the option of using your Chromebook as a more all-purpose laptop, he's definitely the horse to bet on in this race!

4 comments:

schultz i have found a comment of your as name of steve zingman but your picture were there. i am following your blog for many months and still hope to get the links of the tools i need to flash as windows bios to acer c7 and install windows 7 or 8 as well a months ago the youtube side show they had able to install win 7 on that pc. i'm waiting for your help in this matter.

The language barrier will be a challenge. People are still trying to get Windows 7/8 working with coreboot/SeaBIOS but I'm not one of them. At this point, I think it's unlikely that Windows will ever be fully functional natively on the C710. What you don't know from the YouTube video is that it required an external USB mouse & keyboard to do anything with it. And without working trackpad & keyboard, a laptop is pretty worthless.

If a way can be found to flash the Acer AO756 BIOS on the C7, then Windows support is likely, otherwise, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on it. In my opinion, the C7 is seriously underpowered for Windows 7/8 anyway.

Your best option at the moment is probably running Windows on a virtual machine (like VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.) from Linux, if you really really NEED Windows.

I wish I could be more optimistic here, but people have been trying for a year now, and the C710 is probably about to be discontinued, so ...

i think i would better to use linux inspite of waiting for a windows bios on it. cause i too can't wait while a year have gone and no windows bios in the market.

but i appreciate windows is better for me as i use it from dos 6.22 and as far i know linux don't give a support of CAD or 3D Max.

i may prefer to use c7 on net only for surf but chrome os don't have a torrent downloader yet. utorrent is still developer mode and torrent surf is not on web, althogh youtube downloader none. so i'm using ubuntu 13.10 and there are many errors.